Non-native local interactions in protein folding and stability: Introducing a helical tendency in the all β-Sheet α-spectrin SH3 domain

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 268, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 760-778

  Prieto, Jesus ^a   Wilmans, Matthias ^a   Jimenez, María Angeles ^b   Rico, Manuel ^b   Serrano, Luis ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE ESTRUCTURA DE LA MATERIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

CD; NMR; Secondary structure; helix; sheet

Indexed keywords

FODRIN; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0031574916     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.0984     Document Type: Article

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